TV Review: John Bishop’s Australia/Tales from the Royal Wardrobe

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The Liverpudlian comedian took the opportunity to settle a few scores at home along his ride from Sydney to Queensland

John Bishop’s Australia BBC One***

Tales from the Royal WardrobeBBC Four****

I see. John Bishop’s Australia, in which the super-comic cycles from Sydney to Queensland, as he did 22 years ago, wasn’t just a chance to see the wonders he didn’t have time for back in 1992. It was also a chance for the Liverpudlian to counterattack other parts of the UK for the insults his city has been stung with in the past. Of the man who discovered the Aussie coastline, Bishop pondered: “James Cook came from Middlesbrough, so most places would look beautiful to him.”